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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belgrade, thought they saw indications Milosevic was backing the offensive. They say the dozens of trucks and buses the Bosnian Serbs used to transport the Muslims out of Srebrenica were observed crossing the border from Serbia into Bosnia last Monday night. They also say the Drina Corps, the Serb unit that launched the attack, was newly resupplied with fuel and munitions that must have come from Serbia. At least two Western embassies in Belgrade sent representatives to Milosevic last week asking him to prove his bona fides by ending the offensive in eastern Bosnia. Could he deliver? Milosevic...
...helped create a culture in which senior managers and agents face each other across a vast reservoir of distrust and hostility, according to hundreds of pages of internal reports and court documents reviewed by Time. Rank-and-file agents have long protested how managers use ATF's internal-affairs unit, which routinely conducts three to five times as many internal probes as the Secret Service's apparatus, even though each agency has roughly 4,000 employees. Magaw explains the differential as partly because of the fact that ATF agents conduct far more gritty street investigations and thus are likely...
...just before going into battle in Kuwait. The soldier was asked whether he was afraid. "He said," Powell relates proudly, "'I am not afraid. And the reason I'm not afraid is that I'm with my family.' He looked over his shoulder at the other youngsters in his unit. They were white and black and yellow and every color of the American mosaic. 'That's my family. We take care of one another...
...House-approved measure defines ananti-ROTC policy as one which "I) prohibits, or ineffect prevents, the secretary of defense frommaintaining or establishing a unit of the senior[ROTC] at that institution, or 2) prohibits, or ineffect prevents, a student at that institutionfrom enrolling in a unit of ROTC at anotherinstitution of higher education...
...offensive, he was a patient in the hospital when a Serb shell crashed through the room, severing the head of one patient and slicing the body of another in two. Even with his own head and hands bandaged from the blast, Curevac could not wait to rejoin his unit at the front, convinced that the Bosnian army was about to give the Serbs a thrashing. "They won't be able to do this for much longer," he declared confidently...